Production Team Manager

Job Title: Production Team Manager

Location: Blyth, Worksop

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

Do you have the passion and desire to constantly strive for better? Have genuine care for dogs, their humans and our team (squad members), want to create a best in class customer experience and all whilst making it a great place to work. Then this is the job for you!

As a Production Team Leader, you will lead a team to deliver our production plan to feed our happy and healthy dogs. Doing this whilst driving high team performance, embracing all aspects of the culture and functional requirements, making continuous improvements and elevating us to the next level. Reporting into the Shift Operations Manager, you’ll support the daily operations and ensure our dogs are provided with the very best human-quality meals.

Key duties:

Operational Requirements

• Accountable for our health and safety standards on shift, the upkeep and delivery through conducting daily Health and Safety audits with your Squad members, raising corrective actions to any nasties you may find and owning the resolution.
• Be competent in completing thorough Accident Investigations through root cause analysis and completing near-miss reports. Ensuring that corrective actions are raised and closed out in a timely manner.
• Review training and development of staff through all areas of the kitchen by ensuring that Squad members are trained against relevant SOPs and other required training and documentation.
• Ensure that labour is managed effectively to ensure production can be maintained through the management of holidays and absences. Proactively managing and identifying issues.
• Quality & hygiene standards are increasingly important to us, so we ensure that GMP standards are maintained at all times. As well as verification of IMS checks from the cooking of our products to the cleaning of all our equipment.
• Provide supervision, support and leadership to the Production team in pursuit of key operational metrics of quality, output and waste. Ensuring that you are reactive in times of deviations from the agreed targets.
• Have had some experience in leading continuous improvements and problem-solving initiatives, which contribute to savings within the department/company.

Communication & Partnership

• Be able to communicate clearly and effectively with the SLT team when needed, particularly in times when the Shift Operations Manager may be away from the business.
• Ensure daily handovers between departments are completed - ensuring the relevant detail is captured so each shift oncoming is a success.
• Work closely with the procurement and planning team to ensure meal output meets sales demand.
• Work well with multiple functional teams, including People, Engineering, Technical, Warehouse and Order fulfilment to drive well thought-out and cohesive plans

Our Culture & Values

• Understanding that squad member engagement drives operational excellence and People Leaders play a crucial role in making Butternut Box the best place they’ve ever worked.
• Be present in the Kitchen, ensuring you are available to proactively support the team, help find solutions and take action to change.
• Messages and key communications are delivered to the teams and key stakeholders in a timely and accurate manner. You’ll have an excellent awareness of how your communication style impacts others, and you’ll tailor this to your audience.
• Confidently undertake meaningful and regular 1:1’s with Squad members, ensuring they feel heard and that their feedback is important to you. You’ll consider their career aspirations, skills and background and tailor your style to their needs.

About you

• Experience in a Team Manager or Leader role in a high-speed, high-volume operational environment, and responds effectively to changing priorities of an FMCG company.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with squad members and key stakeholders.
• Leads by example and is committed to developing others, offering approachable day-to-day support and has a passion for building engagement and celebrating key milestones.
• Experience in leading process and system improvements to support operational performance and cost.
• Motivated by being part of a business focused on health and happiness for dogs and their humans.

Why join us?

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year, plus an extra 8 hours for each year of service (up to 40 hours)*
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self-care*
• Enrolment into our EAP Telus offering free financial planning, counselling, mental health support and more
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance and dental cover
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts”

These are only a few of our many benefits, a full list can be found on our website.

* Holidays and Paws days are pro-rata for those working part time or job share

Please click on the APPLY button to submit your application for this role.

Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Shift Manager, Production Manager, Team Manager, Assistant Operations Manager, Manufacturing Team Leader, Senior Production Operative, Manufacturing Manager, Production Team Leader, Production Team Supervisor, Site Team Leader, Operations Supervisor may also be considered